Juice Fasting Period 40 Days. Weight Loss: 140 Lbs

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Fasting with water and fruit and vegetable juices and a diet high in raw foods gave me a new lease on life! My chronic hepatitis had become a crippling disease. Years of serious addiction followed my drug abuse at thirteen, and I got hepatitis, a frustrating and painful illness. Deterioration of my liver progressed as the years followed, which caused my kidneys and spleen, the other filtering organs to be overworked, thus damaging them, causing even more pain. A diet of natural foods combined with juice and water fasting I suffered for sixteen years. The swelling of my liver was to the size of a football. The liver is the major organ that cleanses the body, and swelling caused pressure on other organs. Swelling causes constant irritating pain which is felt from the rib cage to the stomach. It is impossible to forget hepatitis. Life was dismal and without hope. I was a 270 lbs. blob of fat, a burned out drug addict coming off a massive intake of chemicals. I needed 20 to 30 tranquilizers a day so I would not lose my sanity. I had a hard time controlling my emotions. Nerves were like electrical wires on overload. In my ...
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desperation, I contacted Tom, a friend I did not see for years. He wanted to help me and I moved into his house. After a few days of sleeping, I woke up realizing how my life had become grossly complicated by my rebellion. I had played the role of someone else for 20 years, a person who was ruthless, tough and invincible. An empty barren soul remained. The flood of tears wouldn't stop as I agonized over the loss of my family. I was a victim of my own demise and there was no one to blame. My life was now a massive depression and I thought moving in with Tom would help, but I could not stop seeing the painful reality. Several nights, Tom stayed up listening to my sad story. My insides would have exploded if my all my pent up anguish had not found an outlet. There were remarkable changes after 20 days of juice fasting. I wasn't cured, but because of the results I continued the fast. After 40 days of juice fasting, there was a metamorphosis from a sickly, unstable human into someone vibrant with health and well being. I shed 100 pounds which gradually built my self-esteem. The retention of large amounts of body fluids had caused the excessive bloating. The damaged liver prevented the release these fluids. After the 40 days my weight had dropped to 170 lbs.,whatever had caused the bloating had healed. The swelling on my right side, from my liver, subsided. My mind was clear and stable. I no longer needed tranquilizers after so many years. I was wrong when I believed that permanent damage was caused by drugs. If a butterfly could talk of its experience of changing from a crawling insect into a colorful and graceful creation, its words would those of my heart. What drugs took away was given back. Juice fasting has freed me from a tremendous addiction. I was never this close to God in spirit.

Tom Coghill has written several books on health, nutrition, and fasting. For more information on compulsive eating, see below: Compulsive Eating Plan , Eating Habits That Help Compulsion , Freedom From Compulsive Eating Ref:FASTING&02